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Moonstone Arts Center In collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Moonstone Arts Center In collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series Live at Fergie’s Pub Register for zoom link here! Zoom Link Courtney Bambrick is poetry editor at Philadelphia Stories. Poems in or forthcoming in Invisible City, New York Quarterly, Beyond Words, The Fanzine, Philadelphia Poets, Apiary, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Mad Poets Review, Certain Circuits. She […]

Featured Poets 2022

Featured Poets 2022 Live and Virtual Readings   In 2022, Moonstone featured 235 poets in person and virtually; 113 are in the Featured Poets 2022 Anthology. We will be hosting two events (Live and Virtual) that includes our Featured Poets.   LIVE Event – Sunday April 2, @ 2pm EST LIVE at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 […]

Philly Loves Poetry – Liz Chang

Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading Series Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM   Can be viewed on the PhillyCAM website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia. Liz Chang was 2012 Montgomery County Poet Laureate in Pennsylvania. Her poems have appeared in Verse Daily, Exit 7, Rock & Sling, Breakwater Review and Stoneboat Literary […]

Live Poetry Reading

Live Poetry Reading Don Riggs, Hannah McDonald, and Aaren Perry   Live at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom St. and on Zoom. Registration required. Use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIof-ytrDIiHNH_4_I4bus3BP19d5VhA5Ar Don Riggs has been teaching mostly first-year composition at Drexel University for the past quarter century. He writes a sonnet, broadly defined, in the bathtub each morning, […]

Ernest Hilbert’s “Storm Swimmer”

Live at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom St. and on Zoom. Registration required. Use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcocuqsqzkuHdOJFz8Z28iwB70Roo7UdsWx Join us for the Philadelphia launch of Ernest Hilbert’s new collection of poems. Storm Swimmer (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry) “Ernest Hilbert’s Storm Swimmer is a gleaming cornucopia of dreams, nightmares, tenderness, and grace. It is a book […]

Live Poetry Reading: Celebrating the Publication of ‘Storm Swimmer’!

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Moonstone Poetry Readings Wednesday April 12, 2023 – 7:00pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcocuqsqzkuHdOJFz8Z28iwB70Roo7UdsWx   Join us for the Philadelphia launch of Ernest Hilbert’s new collection of poems Storm Swimmer (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry) In poems that celebrate […]

Live Poetry Reading at Finn Mccool’s!

Finn Mccools 118 S 12th St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Moonstone Poetry Readings Wednesday April 19, 2023 – 7:00pm Live at Finn McCools Corner of 12th & Sansom Street Note the change of venue for this event Jim Cory published his first poem 50 years ago. His most recent publications are Birds & Buildings, Wipers Float In The Neck Of The Reservoir and 25 Short Poems . […]

Celebrate the Art of the Haiku at a Virtual Event

Moonstone Poetry Readings Haiku 2023 Sunday April 23, 2023 – 2:00pm – Virtual Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrc-igrjkpHtMxqEEwiBDf-c1PtVQsC- International Haiku Day The old pond  A frog jumps in  Plop! Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) Translated by Allan Watts The Old Pond may be the most famous of all haiku The haiku is a Japanese poetic form that consists of three […]

Live Poetry Reading!

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Moonstone Poetry Readings Wednesday April 26, 2023 – 7:30pm Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsf–urT8rH9Ma3EpIW0N4vf8_f1s99gqJ   Maya Pindyck’s third poetry collection, Impossible Belonging (Anhinga Press, 2023) won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. […]

Virtual Poetry Event!

Moonstone Poetry Readings Sunday April 30, 2023 – 2:00pm  Virtual Join us for readings from the contributors to Haiku 2023 Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcuqrpzgjHdNJLzqJT8pr9WFYBSL_gKT0   Ekphrastic Poetry Ekphrastic poetry explores art. Using a rhetorical device known as ekphrasis, the poet engages with a painting, drawing, sculpture, or other form of visual art. Poetry about music and […]